When I remove a post that had an image, its image remains in the bucket. Am I missing any settings? Or does this mean, that post is just marked as deleted but still exists in DB, hence its image is still available?

currently, the posts will always remain in the DB.

Can’t believe :joy: There should be a way to remove posts… Otherwise, DB size and bucket will grow and grow…

Anyone knows if this basic feature is going to be implemented in near future?

[image] tenzan: When I remove a post that had an image, its image remains in the bucket. I think they’re cleaned up by one of the daily scheduled jobs? [image]How to make an image orphaned so that it gets removed? All the details are available in this job https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/jobs/scheduled/clean_up_uploads.rb TL;DR: an image is orphaned if and only if it’s not referenced in the latest version of a post in a draft in a queued post in a logo site setting in a custom emoji in a theme in a user avatar/background/card image in a category logo/background image

Removing post not removing its image from bucket

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JammyDodger September 14, 2021, 10:54am 5

I think they’re cleaned up by one of the daily scheduled jobs?

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